Wilson presides over Nations Society talks on two plan approaches
Paris Feb 5 President Wilson presided over the Society of Nations commission as it examines two American influenced plans for a new world body. The first plan favors a democratic legislature and an executive with mixed power, while the revised plan concentrates executive and judicial authority in great powers with small power limits.
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Paris
Wilson
Commission of the Society of Nations
International Supreme Council
United States
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Council of the Great Powers
Executive Council
The
Great Powers
Supreme Council
Venizelos
Commission
Jules Vedrines Plans Roof to Roof Flight Across U S
Ju les Vedrines, famed for a Paris stunt landing atop a building, seeks a nonstop flight from the Equitable Building in New York to the Marshall Field Building in Chicago within six months. He once ferried French secret service men behind German lines during the war and is now in France.
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Jules Vedrines
Paris
Equitable
New York City
Marshall Field
Chicago
France
Wheat control plan faces doubt at congressional hearings
Washington hearing reveals draft wheat legislation from the Food Administration may grant broad power over all food products. Chairman Lever says he would not introduce such a bill without a committee vote and notes general ignorance of the plan among members. Discussions show worry about premature action and official details.
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Washington
Congress
Food Administration
Lever
House Agricultural Committee
League to Save the Kaiser Surfaces in German Newspapers
The Volkszeitung reports organized German societies aim to prevent handing the Kaiser to the allies. Eitel Frederick, son of the former emperor, allegedly wrote to Premier Ebert urging government support. Separately, in Koenigsberg East Prussia anarchists seize most government buildings and a state of siege is declared in Thorn with courts-martial begun.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Volkszeitung
Osnabruck
Eitel Frederick
Ebert
Copenhagen
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
Berlin
Thorn
Weeks Proposes Senate Inquiry on British Embargo
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts introduced a resolution criticizing Britain's new import embargo order. It asks the state department to inform the senate about steps toward modification. The measure says the prohibitions harm U.S. manufacturing at full capacity and conflict with Wilson's third peace principle against economic barriers.
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Washington
State Department
Senate
Weeks
Massachusetts
Wilson
31 Heroes Receive Highest Honors for War Valor
Washington reports 31 Medal of Honor recipients from the American forces in France eight officers and twenty nine enlisted men. Each award follows Pershing recommendations with some posthumous recognitions and gratuities accompanying the honor.
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Washington
France
War Department
Pershing
Congress
Secretary of War
Marcellus H. Chiles
Denver
356Th Infantry
Jesse N. Funk
Calhan
Cole
Charles D. Farger
Stotts City
854Th Infantry
Reidar Waall
105Th
Alan Louis Eggers
Summit
N. J
107Th Infantry
John Cridland Latham
Westmoreland
England
Thomas BE
O'Shea
James I
Mestrovitch
Fresno
Cal
111Th Infantry
Frank Gaffney
Lockport
N. Y
108Th Infantry
Sergt
Harold S. Johnson
David B. Barkeley
San Antonio
Tex
Meuse
Onunost
Paris
Brussels
Committee on Constitution Reports Progress at Paris
The committee drafting the League of Nations constitution reports provisional agreement on the preamble and two articles. Officials announce satisfactory progress on other parts of the draft in Washington.
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Committee ON Constitution
Paris
Americans in overseas service near armistice announced
The War Department disclosed that on November 11 the U S Army comprised three million seven hundred three thousand two hundred seventy three officers and men in overseas service, underscoring the total strength near the armistice.
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Washington, D. C
U. S
Dred
CAPTAIN REED LANDIS BACK FROM EUROPE
Captain Reed Landis of Chicago described as a daredevil aviator returns home aboard the Agamemnon. Friends credit him with downing twelve German planes and claim six more were brought down. He declined to discuss specifics, saying it was simply his training and duty.
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New York
Reed Landis
Chicago
Landis
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
United States District Court of Chicago
Unail
Flanders
Arras
United States
Agamemnon
Germany braces for Spartacist bid to disrupt Weimar assembly
The German government moves to thwart a Spartacist plot to break up the Weimar national constituent assembly. Spartacists are being disarmed in Weimar as government forces stand ready. Journal offices are guarded and some troops show sympathy with the Spartacists amid ongoing unrest in industrial cities.
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Weimar
Amsterdam
National Constituent Assembly
Battle in Bremen Suburbs
Copenhagen reports anarchists and government troops fighting on the outskirts of Bremen. Government forces are said to have breached the city at several locations.
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Copenhagen
Bremen
Senate expands probe into anti government propaganda
Washington move broadens inquiry by the senate committee into German propaganda to include other activities alleged to seek the government’s overthrow. Senators Kellogg Myers Thomas Borah cite lawless groups including the Industrial Workers of the World with anarchist ties and reference a paid ad in the St Louis Post Dispatch as proof.
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Washington
Senate
Kellogg
Minnesota
Myers
Montana
Thomas
Colorado
House
District of Columbia
Poindexter
Industrial Workers of the World
Borah
Idaho
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Lenine
America
Wisconsin Chief Menaced by Portage Gunman
Ralph C. Kennan of Portage invaded Gov. Philipp’s private office in Madison armed with a pistol and demanded 20 million dollars. He returned as promised and was seized after a struggle. letters found in his pockets showed demands to prominent men, with mental instability noted from telepathy studies.
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Wis
Ralph C. Kennan
Portage
KE. L. Philipp
Kennan
Demand Packers Disgorge Their Profits Resolution Adopts
The Texas House denounces big packing houses and urges they disgorge profits. It asks the Texas delegation in Congress to push laws prescribing penitentiary sentences for members of the packing-house trust. No individuals named in the measure.
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Texas
Austin
Tex
Congress
Packing-House Trust
Navy Three Year Build-Up Persuades House Panel
President Wilson’s insistence on naval expansion drives House Naval Committee to approve a three-year construction program in a $750.9 million annual naval bill. Secretary Daniels kept cablegram content confidential, citing it touched beyond domestic policy. The debate also touches Washington’s League of Nations stance and critiques by Senator Sherman.
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Washington
Wilson
House Naval Committee
Padgett
House
Paris
Daniels
Congress
Rogers
Massachusetts
Rep
Graham
Illinois
Mr. Padgett
Representative Butler
Slayden
Texas
Naval Committee
Senate
League of Nations
Phitchcock
Foreign Relations Committee
Sherman
Henry Ford
United States
Sinn Fein Leader Escapes Prison Says De Valera
London February 5 Sinn Fein leader Edward de Valera has escaped from prison according to the Exchange Telegraph Company.
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Sinn Fein
Edward de Valera
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
the Exchange Telegraph Company
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